Hey everyone I'm not live for today and welcome to be green the show that makes big
green Well just a little bit easier we have
a fantastic show for you today we're going to be going to a green business and to
a home energy audit the first primary so much about
a restaurant that is environmentally friendly and serving up some of the most
nutritious food in town.
Because I'm here with T.V. Owner and creator of Kai's here on T.V.
I did
a I'm good credit and wonderful I have to tell you first of all this place is so
beautiful I walked in the energy is absolutely just infectious it's so beautiful
here and still tell me
a little bit about Chis and I talk to all I had to say due to the food and my my
son when he was around to develop the wall or G.'s and say oh it was all about me
that he could eat during this is delicious but really super nutritious because you
know we do believe here pretty much you are what you eat so basically. Just trying
to take an Asian just for technology we call it found which means Rachel OK
applying it in differently with different wrapping different things around the
outside fray and creating kind of a new food that's kind of like a sandwich or
a graph but it's not but you still get that hurting this with the rice that bread
gives you but it's not bread OK really choosing to use the highest quality
ingredients that we can find that are going to local. You know plus the wild sort
of free range now you don't have
a lot you don't only have delicious food but you might also have some green
elements here too. Yeah can you tell me
a little bit about what you do well I really wanted to create
a business that was sustainable and as green as possible and so we purchased
a lot of compost materials and if it's not comfortable to recycle and so I have an
option to have no trash. And I got
a compost in to the city and that's wonderful There you go you have some reclaimed
what is well yeah reclaimed wood in this room this is all natural rules and I saw
in the bathroom I saw look let's say Cliff Oh toilets at the bottom get Hampshire
this energy efficient Yeah no way so there's no paper trails and now I have to say
I am ravenous so I guess I'm going to just make something let's make something I
can do it all so not only you know what we do here guys it is called the curry to
come like
a burrito but I'm not afraid of it not OK it's with rice and it's with either
colored roommate or see me. Feel good and ready so you're going to make the
barbecue for gravy job of thank you mama Yeah sounds good so how do you go are they
just going to put some little some rice on to the collard greens OK. That's good.
And then just sort of flat it and then just going to put some barbecue pork along
that center line how did you know your love for it to die of not being able to
share it and I just never could line up OK kind of somewhere south of here so way
more than that I could be like I'm generous they're pretty they're taken because I
definitely need some bacon hungry and I'm going to layer on Sam I don't like
cabbage mom with
a live look at that and the colors are so beautiful still rocking and ready to go
roll it up for Fit Club just around the area I'll be out. There you
got your first computer believe me OK with that let's go sit down and eat also OK.
Thank you. All. All. That I had for the Coke Zero for.
Us to look at was slow roasted for probably telling all my guide to soberly tender
really good the collards I was such
a nice look when I still element to it there really balances with the pork it hurts
Well it's so bad I would have paid smoothies I regret it I have it going today I
didn't want today and salad and this is our desserts I made out
a real PITA to our bags made out of black beans are of this kind of like
a pumpkin pie but it's made out of pressed into but just well thank you so much and
been a blast I know people are like down here waiting for him I think I'm getting
a new month. And I want to take
a nice. I have to decide now I'm just enjoying my career to think you would like to
thank for him it was. Oh my gosh that place was so good to thank you Jamie OK
here's
a quick tip for your home fill your house with plants they purify the air remove
the household toxins now some more than others so do your research and go get
yourself a new plant plus they work so nice and you know they put you in
a good mood whenever you surround yourself with greenery of nature and always
happier OK Guys it is time for an audit and energy audit.
I do it through and I just wish list with sellers that Monica and I like I thank so
much for having us at your home there was yet so we're going to do an energy audit
today right please explain what that is yeah I'm really excited our home is due for
major remodel and before we decide what to do we want to get
a home energy audit done on the house kind of guide us to figure out what to do
first Absolutely and have someone find
a question could you contact programs to help you out absolutely there are
a lot of resources right now for homeowners to find
a home for those contractor you're interested in rebates which I know
a lot of people are there on there are programs from the state because. We have
websites and we link to all of them on the sort of sound website so the comp of one
stop shop for homeowners interested in the fish and sea and going solar rebates
coming to play out some ten to thirty percent of the cost of an upgrade and then if
you're interested in financing the rest of the city of Santa Monica has
a new financing program called Hero low interest loans for homeowners interested in
making homes more efficient and installing solar on the loan can be paid back on
property tax bill Tony Yeah so essentially getting this major upgrade on the house
OK sign me up yeah I need to buy
a house now so I say I know there are some some strapping out man behind me what to
write these down on the contract Yeah I want you to meet Dan from the building
doctors to hire to do a home energy audit and you should follow him as he does
a lot of them and I love until I have so much to learn I'm really excited I think
Stern idea that you get you guys kind of look like us Busters like in
a good way but you're really building doctors cracking Rio to build
a Dutch area lot of sick buildings out there which I make about God it so what do
you guys actually do and what are we looking for in this particular home well what
we do is we come in to do
a comprehensive energy audit on the home to see exactly where you're using energy
and wasting energy there what this does is this sets the benchmark for where you
start out with how can if it should go home and we measure and test everything
build an energy model of all of the collected data on the whole and then we can run
scenarios after that if we insulate that but in a more efficient this put in
a high efficiency water here but whatever one of the scenarios and then this is the
energy models will actually produce
a report to say hey if you choose this is this you have this much percentage of
energy production and then you get more comfortable more durable more about the
value of the safer Absolutely and you're doing your part to help environment which
we also said you know consider for sure although I would love to. It's hard I think
Mike what's marked up back here this is one of the. Important tools that we use
during the on
a crisis and call the blower door and what we do is we actually fill up the house
full of there and there's a fan that here and then we have
a pressure gauge here it's called anomaly or we're going to do is going to measure
the amount of air flow it takes to come in through here it's going to get replaced
with leaks in the house so right now we're just using the snow pen to show where
there's air leaks you know so Maginot your need your house and all that hot air is
floating out of these like wow right so that this house itself I've counted over
thirty two recessed lights so that's thirty to six inch holes in your building show
only when you get
a summary how far would you make of that I don't have enough to for you OK So that
now what are we to check what we go around the whole house and then we look in
every single room with look at the attics in the walls and we can see where there's
missing insulation where there's
a poorly performing insulation with the when the blower doors running we can
actually have that go and we can determine where there's air leaks in the house
soldiers of fifteen degree temperature difference and inside that we can see that
cold air is being brought in or the warm air and you're still gonna work and go to
matter because now we're going to do the same thing as member the blowers who were
testing you did we're going to do this thing called the doc plaster test we're
going to see look all of the bends and then we're going to fill up the system full
of air and we're going to be able to tell exactly how the ducks are sure now what
we're doing is we're testing to see what the carbon dioxide level is cut off it's
carbon dioxide is
a colorless odorless deadly gas off from us it's good to know when you have it in
the stove top a lot of people don't realize that they could have
a lot of current take about most people don't turn on the fans because they're kind
of loud I had enjoyed so we're testing around here we have about seven parts per
million which is not bad thank you so much this is so informative and learned
a time after the Army said Where can I go you can go to solar Santa Monica dot com
to get information with us but the rebates are great for energy upgrade California
others great fighting team tools out there with pace find it. In this coming on the
low interest loans of the rebate levels are as good as you get so it's
a great time to take your whole energy efficiency thank you so much for the next
generation that's got it all together but I thought you were going to take my old
girls are you going to really I love that I go to the building Dr Drew. Whoa did I
learn
a lot so much great information we can all benefit from OK here's another tip stop
throwing away your dryer let's give it to the birds they love this and they feather
their nuts what they're good at but OK let's end the day with
a much needed relaxation and with that.
I'm here with Regis Birdman I'm sure and
a yoga instructor here at Golden Bridge yoga I do them good for us thank you so
much for having us three love it oh you got to stand up with that I'd. Never leave
anyway. And meditation as well is pretty creative
a lot going on here yes. Now there's
a lot of you know you're good at places and say oh my God Oh very very special. We
like to think there are so there's really
a community and we do mostly can doing yoga here which is
a little bit different than other styles of yoga but it's a very deep and
a wonderful way to enhance your life physically and mentally. Yeah and we just we
will we thrive on bringing people in and bringing people together you fires also
implement a lot of eco friendly practices here right here tell me
a little bit about that yes well the city came and helped us with that as well and
most of our lighting is deeds and we use recycled wool products and we try
not to use paper towels especially with the staff we have you know the wash towels
leaves essential oils and. Supply models from nice and and banks All right
thanks yes well actually installed and saving tons of water and now you also carry
a lot of local organic products here at the boutique right we do we actually just
got some beautiful local hot sauce and we also carry some local clothing lines
because I want my favorite juices to Oh yes and they're wonderful and they come
here every week SWAT things out put things back fresh squeezed and all of their
juice is local organic wonder farmers Oh it's really wonderful how you guys work
with sustainable works in their business creamy program right yes how was that it
was so awesome Yeah I mean when I first approached me I can believe they wanted to
give us all these things and really help us be sustainable me they really work hard
and. I just loved working with them it was actually really easy and we're already
doing
a lot of the things they were asking we would recycle all the paper we use we just
scrap paper that was a big one and we really had some L.E.D.
Lighting you know it was very simple and easy actually go and they make it very
wonderful everyone here that so I know there's
a pretty little cots going on yet and if you don't mind the gloves take some time
and the end of the day is that you think it'll be OK I don't like them that's true
love to you to try to get you so much on the Fin twenty one assessment of the case
and you.
That was so wonderful I'm so relaxed words have to come try yoga class here we have
a variety of classes there located at seven thousand Broadway here in Santa Monica
the website is Goldenbridge yoga dot com and you're just going to love it must've
been
a lot of two things are pretty All right well unfortunately are out of time guys
but thank you so much for watching and don't forget to be green the way love is
patient.